Thanks guys. Certainly DVDs will work. I may even have the fedora version that I originally installed in his system. I was unable to boot a USB stick. The reason we kept secure boot on that system is that he said he might want to keep windows. I currently have his system, so I have more time to play with it
-- Jerry Feldman <[email protected]> Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org PGP key id: 6F6BB6E7 PGP Key fingerprint: 0EDC 2FF5 53A6 8EED 84D1 3050 5715 B88D 6F6 B B6E7 On Thu, May 12, 2022, 8:59 PM jbk <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/12/22 20:27, Jerry Feldman wrote: > > A Blu member who used to attend installfests has an older PC. We put fedora > on it at the time because ubuntu could not be installed because of secure > boot at the time, and the user wanted to be able to boot into windows. > Fedora was one of the first distros to get a certificate. In any case > fedora now core dumps. In truth, I was time constrained, and did not boot > into single user mode . > Question: > The bios recognizes USB HDD but not USB sticks . I still have a few DVD-RW > but I would rather use a USB stick. Is there a way to fool the bios to boot > the USB stick > > What I really want to do is recover the data. I was able to boot an old > version of fedora that I happened to have in my ancient DVD collection. > -- > Jerry Feldman <[email protected]> <[email protected]> > > I have an old t400 and it boots usb sticks as USB_HDD per the boot > options. I've been using it as a test bed for various distros installed via > usb stick. If Secure Boot is enabled you will have to use a modern fedora > version to boot so I would disable it for your purposes. In my bios there > is a separate USB line item that enables usb support in the bios which if > disabled will not allow you to boot from any usb device. > The t400 is pre UEFI. > > -- > Jim [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
